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From: "David Johnston" <rgorman@telusplanet.net>
To: "C. Jones" <guilty@furinkan.net>
Cc: <ffml@fanfic.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 2:48 AM
Subject: [FFML] Re: [Ranma] THE CLAN - Chapter 21
Now, hold it right there. Why are Cologne and Shampoo suddenly using
weapons out of a Hammer film? They watch a lot of vampire movies in
the Amazon village? Chinese vampires and near vampire equivalents
have no traditional vulnerability to Christian symbols, and they
certainly wouldn't have any religious faith in holy water and crucifixes.
Further, you already said that the Amazons had been approached by vampires
looking for recruits, so didn't the Amazons learn anything about what
works and
what doesn't as they tried to kill the vampires? I mean sure, it does a
great
job of making Cologne and Shampoo look like total idiots, but it doesn't
make
any sense.
I'd have to agree. One of the apparent themes of this story is a
conflict between how vampires are perceived (As evil or cursed blood sucking
monsters) and how they really are(Super-Goths with no bad points except for
uncomplimentary P.R.), however this climactic confrontation pushes that
discrepency much too far. Basically what we're seeing would fit better if
Colougne was portrayed as never having seen a vampire but having read about
one that her great grandmother fought once. Which isn't how she's been
portrayed. And the method's she's using didn't exist before the movies
dreamed them up, so the discrepency's that much worse.
Alternatively you could set up a scene in the next segment where Nodoka
realises that the attacks would have been effective against a rare blood
drinking Chinese Demon. and explain the source of the amazon's problem as
mistaken identity. Unsatisfying but functional.
Well, things continue. I certainly look foreward to the eventual
revelations about the nature of Ravaners. Hopefully the revelation will
compromise the whole argument of vampirism as a counter to them. Sorry but
the basic Faustian agreement theme just fits too well.
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